Govt to table CII recommendations in Parliament: Maulana Fazl Rehman

ISLAMABAD : Maulana Fazlur Rahman, the Chief of JUI, has said that following his consensus meeting with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on the recommendations of Council of Islamic Ideology, the PML-N government has decided to table its recommendations before the Parliament.
In a statement issued here by his spokesperson, Jan Achakzai, Maulana said that the recommendations of the CII had been in the cold storage for the last nearly 40 years and successive governments did not

make any legislation in the light of these recommendations.
He said that due to the failure of the Parliament to legislate on these recommendations, there has been widespread anxiety among the religious youth who concluded that Parliament could not deliver shariah laws.
He said some disgruntled youth had even taken up arms for Shariah and termed Pakistani democracy as western democracy.
He said that the aspirations of the religious circles in the country need to be met by the Parliament otherwise the extremists' and the militants' narrative will get strengthened.
He said that Quaid-i-Azam was a democratic person and his closest associates in the then Constituent Assembly introduced Objective Resolutions as part of the Constitution and made Pakistan an Islamic democratic republic. "Now governments are duty-bound to bring all laws in line with the principles of Islam and Shariat".
He said Council of Islamic Ideology has representation of all schools of thought and it evolves recommendations after thorough consensus.
He observed that he even suggested to the last Parliament that if it could not enact in the light of these recommendations, it could enact legislature along the spirit of the recommendations, but in vain.